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Staring:
Parker Posey,
Josh Hamilton,
Tori Spelling,
Freddie Prinze Jr.,
Geneviève Bujold
Director:
Mark Waters
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $14.99
Our Price: $5.74
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 9780788816918
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305428026
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-01-18
Running Time: 85
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-10-10 |
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Description
This outrageous comedy was cheered for its edgy humor and hot young cast! All Marty (Josh Hamilton -- ALIVE) wants is a normal life, but nothing goes as planned when his fiancee (Tori Spelling -- SCREAM 2) meets his far-from-normal family. His beautiful but crazy twin sister, "Jackie-O" (Parker Posey -- DAZED AND CONFUSED), becomes dangerously jealous ... and their younger brother (Freddie Prinze, Jr. -- I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER) puts the moves on Marty's new love! Soon, Mother's hiding the kitchen knives ... but she can't hide the family's shockingly hilarious secrets! One of Hollywood's most talked about releases in years -- this offbeat motion picture is wild entertainment fun!
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Parker Posey was the It Girl of independent film in early 1997, the year this film (along with three or four others in which she starred) all played at the Sundance Film Festival. This film was the toughest of the bunch to embrace, based as it was on a self-consciously quirky off-Broadway play about Thanksgiving at the home of a particularly strange family. Oldest son Josh Hamilton comes home from college for the holidays, with fiancée Tori Spelling in tow. What he hasn't told her is that his twin sister, Jackie-O (played by Posey), thinks she's Jackie Kennedy--or that he and Jackie-O have shared more than, shall we say, filial affection. Posey is wonderfully edgy and she and Hamilton spar with entertaining vigor, but you still have to cope with writer-director Mark Waters's pretentious script. --Marshall Fine
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the dark side of a rich family, 2009-06-18
Sometimes bringing home your girl to meet the family on thanksgiving
is a bad move. This movie deals with obsession and incest and maybe
should be restricted?
Not for sex, but for the strange disturbing content?
I don't think I liked the movie much.
Awful Arthouse Trash, 2009-05-09
This movie encapsulates everything wrong with "edgy" theatre. It has no plot, no characterization, and no talented actors. Whoever wrote this movie really did not incorporate anything that would interest a viewer looking for a well-told story. There is not one redeeming quality about this movie.
Sure, the incest thing is edgy, but it is nothing more advanced than etchings in a 8th grader's notebook. How about the Kennedy assassination? Pretty edgy, huh? Well, it would have worked if I had cared about a single character. Unfortunately, every character is extremely one-dimensional and the acting reflects that perfectly. Also, the nuances about the timing of the assassination and the death of the father would have worked if I HAD CARED. But the director lost me at the first forty minutes.
This movie is terrible in so many ways. Its plot is flat and the "twist" at the end only further serves to show what an insipid piece of junk this movie really is.
Say "no" to this house!, 2010-05-03
THE HOUSE OF YES is based on a stage play, and although I've never seen a production or read the script...the movie sure felt an awful lot like a play that did not have its script "opened up for the screen." It felt very theatrical...almost to the point where it felt like a deliberate choice to have this movie feel like a play. If that's the case, it was NOT a good choice.
THE HOUSE OF YES deals with a very messed up, upper class family who happen to live within shouting distance of the Kennedy compound. Set a few years after John Kennedy's assassination, we meet the Pascal family, including mother (Genevieve Bujold) and her three kids: young Anthony (Freddie Prinze Jr.), "Jackie-O" (Parker Posey) and her brother Marty (Josh Hamilton). Set during part of Thanksgiving weekend, Marty is bringing his fiancé Lesly (Tori Spelling) to meet his family. Anthony is a social shut-in of some sort...he's a young man who ought to be in college or something, but he appears to be terribly naïve and flighty. Jackie-O (her real name is not given, from what I could hear) is nuts. She dresses like Jackie-O and virtually imagines herself to BE Jackie, and she further imagines that her brother Marty is John. She CLEARLY has an unhealthy attachment not only to her fantasies but to her brother. Could there be incest in their past? Marty seems to be fairly normal, but he slips into old, poorly adjusted patterns pretty quickly. Poor Lesly is just a mid-western girl, slightly simple...and is quickly overwhelmed by the weirdness around her. And Mother (also not named) is no help at all...she acts like the matriarch of a fine, tradition-steeped family, having rationalized the fact that all her kids are basket cases.
The film is sometimes called a comedy...but truthfully, it is more odd & quirky than funny. At first, the odd behavior of this family seems almost quaint and amusing...but as it becomes clearer that they are ALL messed up (including "normal" Marty); it grows harder to keep much interest in these folks. They are given to histrionics and huge theatricality of speech and gesture...and this is REALLY annoying to watch.
The script includes bad behavior, seductions that are quite sordid, lots of yelling & drinking and enormous amounts of dialogue that indicates how nuts these people are. It's almost as if they are all aware they are crazy and are trying to outdo each other.
This might be tolerable if the cast were better. But just as the script hasn't been allowed to open this story up (we never really even see the outside of the house)...the actors have apparently been encouraged to perform as though they were onstage. All are allowed to exaggerate greatly, and most do not have the skill to pull this off. If you've ever wanted to know what an evening at the theatre starring Tori Spelling and Freddie Prinze Jr. might be like...wonder no more. It's an evening that includes not one single believable emotional moment. Spelling acts like a dumb blonde...in the worst possible way. Prinze just looks like a lost puppy. Hamilton starts out okay, but as his character falls under the old thrall of his family, he allows himself to wallow in "Acting" with a capital "A." Bujold, in many ways, comes off the best...but her character really goes through no growth or change, so in the end, her role is mostly relegated to the sidelines. And the usually wonderful Parker Posey is allowed to go right over the top. She's got energy to burn, and her role gives her very little in the way of realistic shadings. She bounces all over the place (per the script), and none of it seems rooted in an underlying reality. I can't decide if it is her fault or the fault of the director & script. Regardless, she flails about with great verve...but it's all sound and fury signifying nothing.
By the time HOUSE OF YES reaches its final scenes, we're just tired and bored and ready for it to be over. I was left feeling that I had spent nearly two hours with a bunch of horrible people, doing stupid, petty little things and that it all culminated in total meaninglessness. There was no deeper point to be made, and even the journey there was not worth taking. This is truly a HOUSE OF NO.
should be called the house of no!!, 2007-03-09
this was gawdawful!! the characters strain to be eccentric. they try soooo hard to be interesting and odd that they, ironically, become forgettable. there is not one particular trait in any character that stands out. parker posey is supposed to emulate jackie kennedy. none of jackie's personality is reflected, nor are her mannerisms, nor does she get quoted. parker posey's character merely dresses like her. ooooohh! really pushing the boundaries! and then they seemingly throw in the incestous affair as the last resort bait to capture our attention, kind of like they have nothing else in their tackle box. what a waste of a great cast!! it's completely disappointing as a funny / entertaining movie, but it beats watching prime time tv.
One of the best written comedies in years!, 2008-12-26
This is one of my favorite films... albeit a strange one. I hear people throw around "This film had wonderful writing" a lot... and usually that is not the case. This film IS really good writing at its best. Yes it is dark, but they create a wonderfully icky, witty, believable world. The complexity of the characters and dialogue is really astonishing. The acting is great. Spelling is not the strongest, but perfectly cast in the film as the outcast. THIS IS NOT a first date film! Trust me, I learned the hard way not everyone will like this film. But frankly I would not want to date anyone who could not appreciate it ; )
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